Her sudden outburst made the heaven and earth lose colors! Even the half dragon who is quite suffering a great pain, can't help but to tremble and fall to its knees.
Eventually he is cursing that damn bastard who is enchanting a spell in order to tame him and that lady in lavender dress. Damn bastards.
"If I totally recuperated and had not heed this lady' s summon, I wouldn't have been suffering right now.'' he can only shut his eyes when another wave of pain hit him. But his cursing did not stop there.
"Damn bastard. Is he not satisfied?" he murmured but Anastasia heard it clearly and was grinning like a foxy lady.
'I wonder what would he do if he knew that I do not have the intention to stop this duke if it wasn't for that idiot emperor's scheme? Will he ran to a nearby pillar and kill himself if he knew that this duke also don't have the intention to stop? Speaking of that...'
She eyed the duke whose eyes are blank and lifeless while casting a spell. Based on his aura, he is more than a spell caster, he's an advanced tier master mage. Could it be...
...he couldn't control himself?
Anastasia only took ten steps towards the duke when an unknown energy attacked her and made her retreat two steps. She felt that the unknown energy was from the duke and thay energy was attacking anything or anyone who is within the vicinity.
Seeing the situation, the young lady stood still and released half of her noumenal energy, holding back the other half of it. Though it still added to the fear of everyone. Even the emperor who was with her earlier is already on her side, ready to help her.
"Chadwell, we need to stop him. He can't control his power." recognising the person behind her, she didn't even turn to look at him and said those words.
"Do you have any plan to make him surrender?" the emperor said it in low voice so that only Anastasia could hear him, and expectedly, the young lady nodded but seriously eyeing the duke's emotionless eyes.
Sensing that she has a plan and she clearly need his help, how could he not? But the thing is, only he and her knows his true status in the mage ranks and those crowd only has a bit of information about the young emperor, which is he, being a spell caster. Nothing else.
Sensing he was about to rebuke, she just turned back and smiled at him, "Lord Emperor, if you have no intention in helping me, why are you here?" even though she's smiling, the hint of mockery was shown. But smiling at him in front of many, not realising that they are in public eye, made everyone think they are a perfect couple. The handsome young emperor and a young lady whose looks are envied by many, both has the face that could bring a kingdom to complete desolation.
...
"..." he, the emperor, wants to rebuke but when another hateful scream of the pitiful half dragon, he made his involuntary movement. His aura leaked and continue to spread, making everyone shrink---
The young emperor of the east was also a genius mage and a spell caster?! If words spread, it will make the whole forgotten realms be cautious when it comes to the east emperor in the future...
However, no matter he released his full inner aura, the screaming dragon kept agonising in pain. He immediately said a spell to counter the spell the young duke was enchanting nonstop but only can supress the pain. How could they stop him?
That's when he notice the purple mist surrounding the left hand of Anastasia. Is she...
"Continue with the spell. It seems like that duke is no ordinary. Also, cast a formation around the perimeter. I don't want to be responsible for hurting civilians." after saying her piece, the young lady gathered her noumenal energy. This left the young emperor no choice but to obliged. He cast a formation and at the same time , countering the young duke's spell.
The young lady, who closed her eyes and some purple orb floated in her palm like a ball of purple flames. And once she gathered enough energy and sensed some formation in the area, she unhesitatingly released that orb towards the duke and for some reasons, the purple orb somewhat clashed with an invisible barrier. And the purple orb somehow look like it has his own mind and control, it backed down and continued to smash itself to the invisible barrier until it sounds of clanking and broken glass was heard.
At the same time, the purple flamed orb disappeared without a trace. Only by then, one could see a bead of blood trickling down from a jade-like hands of the young lady but her expression remained blank. The crowd didn't created a fuss about it since they already know that the young lady's attitude.
"Duke Constantine. Don't make me do this." Anastasia murmured under her breath this words while enduring the pain in her head. Others don't know that in order to break the barrier, she used her mental energy to control the energy she released towards Xander.
Looking behind, she saw a bead of sweat on the young emperor's forehead. She then immediately knew that he is also battling with difficulties. One should stay away from a spell caster, and a mage. But if one encounters a person who has both characteristics, he should definitely run away. Anastasia didn't have the experience to fight against one because the only person she knows who are capable of the two is Chadwell only. And no matter how cunning and foxy the two of them are, they didn't fight using their magics but only with their words.
So this is a new experience for Anastasia. But a part of her regrets of not making that idiotic emperor not to have a training with her eversince he became the emperor of the east because he always hides away from her beatings.